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Improving maternal and newborn health through participatory community groups in three rural districts in Bangladesh

Condition category

Pregnancy and Childbirth

Date applied

27/02/2009

Date assigned

06/04/2009

Last edited

27/04/2010

Prospective/Retrospective

Retrospectively registered

Overall trial status

Completed

Recruitment status

No longer recruiting

Plain English Summary

Not provided at time of registration

Trial website

Contact information

Type

Scientific

Primary contact

Prof Anthony Costello

ORCID ID

Contact details

University College London (UCL) Institute of Child Health Centre for International Health and Development 30 Guilford Street London WC1N 1EH United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7905 2883a.costello@ich.ucl.ac.uk

Additional identifiers

EudraCT number

ClinicalTrials.gov number

Protocol/serial number

N/A

Study information

Scientific title

Improving maternal and newborn health through participatory community groups in three rural districts in Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Acronym

BADAS (Perinatal Care Project)

Study hypothesis

Will a community mobilisation intervention improve maternal and neonatal home care, service uptake, morbidity and mortality in three rural districts in Bangladesh?

Ethics approval

Not provided at the time of registration

Study design

Cluster randomised controlled trial

Primary study design

Interventional

Secondary study design

Randomised controlled trial

Trial setting

Other

Trial type

Treatment

Patient information sheet

Condition

Maternal and child health

Intervention

In each intervention cluster a facilitator will convene community groups to explore maternal and neonatal health issues. Groups will meet once or twice a month and move through action research cycles. The programme inputs can be itemised as: 1. Recruitment, training, supervisions and remuneration of facilitators. The role of the facilitator is to activate and strengthen groups, support them in identifying problems, help to plan possible solutions and support the implementation and monitoring of solution strategies in the community. Although she requires a grasp of health issues and some knowledge of potential interventions, she needs to be a facilitator rather than a teacher. As such, she may act as a broker of information and communication but her prime importance is as a catalyst for community mobilisation 2. Development of tools for conducting group meetings, process evaluation and documentation 3. Recruitment, training, supervision and remuneration of a supervisory cadre to support the community-based facilitators

There is no follow-up period after the intervention ends. The intervention is a community mobilisation intervention, which only occurs in the intervention clusters. All clusters, control and intervention, receive health system strengthening activities.

Intervention type

Other

Phase

Not Applicable

Drug names

Primary outcome measures

Neonatal and maternal mortality rates, measured prospectively from 1st February 2005 until the end of the trial (31 December 2007).